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Using Amniotic Membrane for Wound Healing in Horses

Using Amniotic Membrane for Wound Healing in Horses

Researchers have discovered a way to make equine amniotic membrane, a treatment option for wound healing, more accessible. One of the realities of managing horses is how frequently they sustain wounds, lacerations, and other injuries. While their sleek limbs afford...

Heat stress in dairy cows housed in confinement systems

Heat stress in dairy cows housed in confinement systems

Lactating cows experience heat stress, particularly during peak milk production, and dry cows experience heat stress particularly during the transition period. To minimise the impact of heat stress in dairy cows, confinement systems have emerged as an alternative to...

Effect of low incubation temperature and low ambient temperature

Effect of low incubation temperature and low ambient temperature

In past decades, a large improvement in poultry production has been made due to genetic selection breeding fast-growing broilers strains. These advances in chicken growth rate were not associated with a parallel development of the respiratory, metabolic, and locomotor...

Demographic headwinds to dog population growth

Demographic headwinds to dog population growth

while forecasts can have short shelf lives, being overtaken by unforeseen events, there’s no question that the U.S. economy and American households have been buffeted by COVID-19 shutdowns and illnesses, patches of job insecurity despite low unemployment rates and...

French lab makes progress with ASF vaccine

French lab makes progress with ASF vaccine

A laboratory of the French government agency ANSES reports promising results in the search for a vaccine against African Swine Fever (ASF). A vaccine to combat ASF could be produced based on research carried out by ANSES’s Ploufragan-Plouzané-Niort Laboratory. ‘The...

Genetic resistance to gastrointestinal parasites

Genetic resistance to gastrointestinal parasites

Gastrointestinal parasites can play havoc in the digestive tract of all animal species, causing a lack of appetite, diarrhoea and poor growth, leading to economic losses for the farm. Selective breeding for parasite resistance in combination with other integrated...

Neonatal diarrhoea and coccidiosis – can we do better?

Neonatal diarrhoea and coccidiosis – can we do better?

Neonatal diarrhoea and diarrhoea caused by Cystoisospora suis are very common and relevant problems in modern pig production. Commonly associated with increased pre-weaning mortality, poor growth rates and variation in weight at weaning. Having an effective...

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